Yesterday was uneventful. We ate leftover lasagna and more Valdosta salad. Today I made my specialty...my enchiladas (which we ate with more Valdosta salad, of course, and I am now officially burned out on the stuff.)
1 lb jack cheese shredded
1 large onion, chopped
green chili enchilada sauce
corn tortillas
Dump a little bit of the green chili sauce into the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish to thinly coat it. Caramelize onion in skillet, then mix into jack. Heat corn tortillas in the microwave, a few at a time to make them pliable enough to roll without breaking. Roll a little cheese mixture into each corn tortilla (leaving ends open) and lay the rolls into the pan. Squish as many into the pan as you can. Turn some the other direction to fill in all the blank spaces. Top the enchiladas with the rest of the sauce so that they're all wet and sprinkle with whatever remaining shredded cheese there is. Bake at 350 for about 20-30 minutes or until cheese is melted through. Serve with spanish rice.
I like to mix in some chopped, cooked fresh spinach (not frozen, because the texture is not as good) into the cheese & onion mix, and I'll sometimes serve it with shredded lettuce and chopped tomato on top (maybe even with a dollop of sour cream) but this time we skipped all of that because of the Valdosta salad.
Entertainment/dessert was making Scandinavian Pecan Cookies...
In a large mixing bowl, cream 1 cup of softened butter and 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in one egg yolk. Gradually add 2 cups of all-purpose flour until blended. (We used whole wheat flour and no problem with this recipe).
Shape into 1-inch balls. In a small bowl, beat on egg white. Dip balls in egg white (stop laughing), then roll in 1/2 cup of finely chopped pecans. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets (we use Silpat which I very highly recommend...it's next to impossible to burn cookies on a Silpat). Flatten slightly. Bake at 375 for 8-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove from pans to cool on wire racks.
I'm going to try to find some healthier dessert recipes. I really don't like having so much sugary stuff around the house. Holy cow these cookies taste like pure brown sugar. Good, but wowza they're sweet...definately need some tea or coffee or milk to go with them.
I've been coasting on what we have stocked up from all of the grocery trips (although we're out of the staples again, like milk and bread.)
Kay had to get diapers. Ah ha! That's one area that I can definately beat her in. My kids may eat more, but I don't have to buy diapers any more! Yippee! As of yesterday, Kay has spent $495.48, so she's still beating me by $86.14. Reading her blog, I seriously think, now, that she gets waaaay better gas mileage than I do. Damn, I'm going to have to suck it up and deal with it - there's no room in the budget for a hybrid or a motorcycle. It's times like these that I really wish there was some kind of public transportation in this town! Maybe I should get a bike. Hmmmm...nothing in the budget for a bike, either.
I noticed that people who voted in my gas poll pay about half as much as I do (the $600 figure came from me, if you count both me and Pete - he has to drive a lot for his job, and yes, we've looked into carpooling...there's just no one on the same route as he is.) If only the Xebra wasn't a pile of crap, I'd get one in a heartbeat...somehow. Electric cars are awesome. I rode in one in high school (I was the public relations crew chief for our high school electric vehicle racing team.) Electric cars are super, super quiet. It's a really nice ride. If only they'd go faster than 35 mph-ish. (Yeah, so the EV races were not very fast...hey we didn't claim to be NASCAR or something.) Heh.
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